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5. Fewer peanuts will be harvested in New Mexico this season. Federal officials say it’s thanks to a salmonella outbreak a couple years ago. The decrease is due to the Portales peanut-processing plant that shut down. A Canadian company bought the Sunland Peanut Plant in Portales. It’s not up and running yet, so there were no contracts this year to grow the Valencia peanuts.

4. Today will be partly cloudy and warm.

3. The race for State Auditor here in New Mexico is getting national attention. Democrat Tim Keller released this campaign ad yesterday and it references Breaking Bad. His opponent, Republican Robert Aragon, calls the charges in the ads half-truths. He says using a Breaking Bad reference he is implying he is a criminal.

2. A graphic sign about an adult issue is up near a school and it has parents upset. It’s an anti-abortion sign and the group behind isn’t apologizing. The sign, put up by ABQ protest, shows pictures of a late-term abortion. It’s up outside the only late-term abortion clinic in Albuquerque, but that’s four blocks from Longfellow Elementary. The city told us it’s free speech and there’s nothing it can do about it.

1. Bernalillo County Sheriff Deputies arrest a man who they say used a spy camera app to take inappropriate pictures of young girls. Now detectives are worried there could be more victims out there. Deputies arrested 35-year-old Chris Armijo on Tuesday. Investigators say Armijo was using apps called Spy Cam and Gotcha to take pictures of girls without them knowing. He’s being held on $30,000 cash or surety.

4. Oil and gas executives are defending their use of fossil fuels in the Four Corners after an alarming study out by the the University of Michigan. The state environment department says it will now review the study. The study identifies the Four Corners area as a hot spot for methane gas in the U.S. due to to leaks in natural gas production and processing equipment.

3. A New Mexico principal is under investigation for how he allegedly disciplines and rewards his students. Michael Granado, the principal at Chaparral Elementary school in Santa Fe is under investigation by the school district for putting kids who misbehave into a naughty box, a taped off area of the cafeteria floor. According to The Santa Fe Reporter he rewards other students who do well with special taxi rides. A taxi ride would be a child sitting down in a rolling chair and being pushed down a hallway.

2. U.S. Marshals are looking for two men on their most wanted list who are connected to a homicide near the sandia ski area. They are Danny Trujillo, 32, and Ignacio Gallegos, 25. They’re wanted for the murder of Eloi Leyba, 26. Leyba’s body was found recently on Crest Road.

1. A second health care worker has tested positive for Ebola. The Texas health department says this latest victim also worked at the same hospital that treated Thomas Eric Duncan who died last week of Ebola. This makes two hospital workers that have tested positive for the disease. Nina Pham, a nurse who was diagnosed is doing better now.

5. The New Mexico Department of Health is reassuring residents in New Mexico that it’s unlikely that the Ebola virus will show up here. However, officials want you to know either way they have a plan in place. If a patient shows up at a hospital with flu-like symptoms, workers will ask if the person has travelled to West Africa or knows someone who has. If they do, necessary precautions will be taken, like isolation.

4. Football players at EscalanteSchool near Chama are accused of getting video of girls changing in the locker room. Official say they are being disciplined. The superintendent says a few freshman players admitted to doing it. Now four boys are suspended and kicked off the J.V. football team. State police are conducting a criminal investigation.

3. Albuquerque police are looking for some violent robbers who are going around targeting elderly women using a U-Haul and posing as movers. Cops say the robbers are becoming more brazen. Now there is a second victim. This is happened near Montgomery and Tramway. Cops say the suspects forced their way into the home of a 77-year-old woman, tied her up with a cord, and then stole jewelry and car.

2. If the weather conditions are right there will be another Special Shape Rodeo this morning at 7:00 a.m. followed by a flying competition at 8:00 p.m. Tonight, it’s the Special Shape Glowdeo at 5:45 p.m. with a fireworks show at 8 p.m.

5. AT&T customers listen up. The company has agreed to refund customers a total of $80 million for bogus charges. It’s part of a $105 million settlement in unauthorized charges on your phone bill.The FCC says AT&T was keeping part of the over charges. They were usually $9.99 a month for services like trivia, horoscopes and love tips that showed up in bills. Go to our website KRQE.com and click on the link to see if you are eligible for a refund.

4. About 100 Marines are headed to West Africa bringing helicopters and other transportation to aid workers this morning in the fight against the ebola outbreak. Meanwhile, Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., has died in Dallas. Now authorities are closely watching a sheriff’s deputy who was in his apartment.

3. Police need your help solving the murder of a man in Rio Rancho. David Pickett, 57, was shot and killed in his home on July 16. Police now say this was a home invasion and think one or two people came into the house and opened fire.

2. Here are some events you don’t want to miss at the Balloon Fiesta today. At 7:00 a.m. a show you don’t want to miss starts, the Special Shape Rodeo. A little fun fact for you, they’re the only balloons to launch from the field both today and tomorrow. The Special Shape Glowdeo is tonight at about 5:45 p.m., followed by the Afterglow Fireworks Show.

1. Today will be mostly cloudy with a high near 72. Strong chance of rain in the afternoon.

5. The Albuquerque City council has decided not to hold a costly mail-in election in December. The councilors wanted voters to weigh in on three proposals, one giving councilors the authority to hire and fire a police chief and another on bond money. The third was about special elections. It would put successful petition drives on the next scheduled ballot, instead of being forced to hold an election within 90-days.

4. Big talker in southeastern New Mexico, a confrontation caught on video. Roswell Mayor Dennis Kintigh and a former police officer. Kintigh says he showed up to the home of former police officer Brandon Beverly to get police gear back, but claims the former officer was refusing to return it. Officer Beverly claims he tried numerous times to return the equipment, but the department never coordinated with him. He is also claiming he was being harassed. The city has given him until Friday to return the equipment of face a civil suit.

3. State police are launching a criminal investigation regarding allegations of high school football players secretly video taping young girls as they changed in a locker room. This allegedly happened at Escalante school, a combined middle and high school in Tierra Amarilla, near Chama. The alleged victims are 7th and 8th graders.